Potato-masher.



UNITED sTA'r s PATENT OFFICE. ALEXANDER STEWART, OF PITTSBURG, I ENNSYLVANIA. POTATO-MASHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 3, 1905. Serial No. 281,111.

Patented Jan. 1, 1907.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER T. STEW- ART, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Potato-Mashers, of which, the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in potato-mashers and the invention has for its object to provide a novel form of receptacle into which potatoes or the like vegetables can be placed and crushed by a masher mounted within said receptacle.

Another object of this invention is to 1provide a potato-masher that can be easily eld during the operation of mashing or crushing vegetables contained therein.

Briefly described, my improved potatomasher comprises an inverted-cone-shaped or tapering receptacle the sides of which are perforated. The receptacle is provided with a suitable base and handle, and in said receptacle is mounted a tapering crusher or masher which is adapted to lie in engagement with the sides of said. receptacle, said crusher being provided with a revoluble handle, whereby it can be swung around within said receptacle to mash vegetables placed therein and force said vegetables through the perforations of thereceptacle. I The above construction will be hereinafter more fully described, and, referring to the drawings accompanying this application,

like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughoutthe several views, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation ofmy improved potato-masher, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

put my invention into practice, I pref-- erably construct my improved potatomasher of strong and durable metal, which may be plated to give the masher a neat and clean appearance. The potato-masher consists of a receptacle having tapering converging walls which are perforated, as at 2 2. The bottom of the receptacle is formed by an annular base 3, having a central indenture or recess 4, and the side walls are secured to the base, as .at 5, whereby a substantially inverted-cone-shaped receptacle will be formed for the reception of potatoes or the like vegetables to be crushed. The walls 1 of the receptacle, together with the tapering walls of the recess 4, are adapted to aline, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The top edge of the walls 1 ofthe receptacle is provided with a cap-ring 6, having an annular opening 7 formed therein. The formation of the opening '7 provides an annular flange 8, which is formed at right angles to the sides of the receptacle, the flange 8,0verhanging the interior of the receptacle, the object of which will be presently described.

The receptacle is provided with a handle 9, which is carried by the cap 6 and the base 3 of the receptacle. In the receptacle is mounted a tapering converging cone shaped crusher 10, the smaller end of which is adapted to rest in the recess 4 of the base 3, while the upper end is contracted to form a neck portion 11, the contraction of the upper end providing an annular shoulder 12, a portion of which lies beneath the flange 8 when the crusher is resting against the sides of the receptacle. Upon the neck portion 11 of the crusher is revolubly mounted a knob or spherical body 14. This knob is revolubly retained upon the neck 11 by a screw and washer 15. I I

In operation the smaller end of the crusher 10 is adapted to rest in the recess 4, and when potatoes or the like vegetables are to be mashed within the receptacle the operator moves the masher around within the receptacle, the smaller end of the crusher serving as a pivotal point upon which the crusher is revolved, and as said crusher is carried around within the receptacle the vegetables will be crushed against the perforated sides of the receptacle and forced through said perforations. A person by holding the receptacle by the handle 9 in one hand and gripping the knob 14 with the other can easily operate the crusher within the receptacle and potatoes or the like vegetables can be quickly crushed to a consistency that will be smooth and fine.

It will of course be understood that when potatoes or like vegetables are being crushed the masher is held over a suitable receptacle into which the crushed potatoes or vegetables may fall.

It is thought from the foregoing that the construction, operation, and advantages of the herein-described potato-masher will be apparent without further description, and various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be re- IIO sorted to without departing from the spirit hanging the interior of the body, a tapering of the invention or sacrificing any of the adcrusher of a length and form to fit freely be- I5 vantages thereof. tween and find its bearings upon the cap- What I claim, anddesire to secure by Letring and the inner apex of the cone; and to 5 ters Patent, isengage the surface thereof, said crusher l. A receptacle for mashing potatoes comhaving a revoluble handle. rising a perforated inverted conical body, a In testimony whereof I affix my signature 2o ase, a cap-ring overhanging the interior of in the presence of two Witnesses.

the body, in combination with a crushing ALEXANDER T STEWART 0 element. '7

2. The combination in a potato-masher of Witnesses: a receptacle comprising a perforated in- E. E. POTTER, verted conical body, and a cap-ring over- M. E. LAWSON. 

